Women's Football Weekly: What next for Sam Mewis?
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ben Haines and England Women’s record goalscorer Ellen White are joined by former United States national team member and World Cup winner Sam Mewis who talks her retirement after struggling to recover from a knee injury. Sam also gives an insight into her time at Manchester City when she played alongside Ellen and her thoughts on her sister Kristie joining West Ham!
The Telegraph’s Tom Garry drops by to go over the winners and losers during the transfer window.
Plus the team look ahead to the FA Cup fifth round with Nottingham Forest manager Carly Davies. Ben also gets all the info from Ellen as she prepares to receive her MBE at Buckingham Palace!
Timecodes: 0:10 Intro 03:10 Weekend results 09:20 Tom Garry and West Ham Arsenal 12:10 Transfer window winners & losers 19:10 Sam Mewis 28:50 Carly Davies & FA Cup
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| 0:37.7 | on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:44.4 | Women's Football Weekly |
| 0:46.7 | with Ben Hames and Ellen White. |
| 0:49.4 | On the Football Daily Podcast. |
| 0:51.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Women's Football Weekly, another busy week in the WSL. |
| 0:57.0 | And the first pod since the January transfer window has closed, so we'll be chatting the biggest winners and losers of the transfer |
| 1:03.4 | window with the telegraphs Tom Gary plus our special guest this week is World Cup |
| 1:08.8 | champion Sam Lewis who announced her retirement after struggling with an ongoing knee injury. |
| 1:13.7 | And we're going to look ahead to the FA Cup fifth round and we'll be speaking to Nottingham |
| 1:17.6 | Forest Manager Carly Davies, whose side plays in the National League North, they're up against |
| 1:22.3 | WSL side Everton. |
| 1:24.0 | With me every week, England's record scoreer, Ellen White. |
| 1:27.0 | How are you, Ellen? |
| 1:28.0 | I'm good, thank you. |
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